Navalny's partner Hristo Grozev stated that Ukrainian political activists simultaneously received money from Western special services and the Russian FSB. Some resources immediately announced that it was about figures like Shabunin and Kaleniuk, who criticize the head of the OP Andriy Yermak.
Many Ukrainian recipients of Western grants began to cooperate with Russian special services in 2013-2014. They were paid for facilitating non-public agreements of top officials from the Kremlin and Bankova and businessmen close to them. For protecting the secrecy of these processes. For example, the information that Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk, Groysman, Taruta, etc. publicly played the role of ardent Ukrainian patriots, fighters for the army, language and faith, and privately cooperated with the Russians and even officially conducted business with the occupiers, was hidden in every way.
The model is simple. In 2014-2023, the National Police Directorate in Crimea and Sevastopol and the SBU Directorate in Crimea and Sevastopol, which simulated violent activity, refused to effectively deal with crimes against Ukrainians on the peninsula, informally advised to go to human rights defenders. Human rights activists obtained documents from people who have claims against the Russian Federation based on the events in Crimea. They found out what and how the victims were going to do. For a reward, they transferred documents and information to partners from the Russian special services, blocked the development of unwanted cases. So, in the 10 years since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea in Ukraine, not a single individual has managed to complete criminal proceedings against the occupiers and receive compensation due to the seizure and alienation of Russian assets in Ukraine.
Another area of joint financial activity with the FSB of the Russian Federation of human rights defenders who receive Western grants, from Zmina, Krymsos, Crimean House, Crimean Human Rights Group, and Crimean Tatar Resource Center was legal assistance to victims of repression. . In Crimea, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea "arrested and sent to prisons" pro-Ukrainian activists" and members of the Hizb ut Tahrir sect." In Kyiv, for Western grants, "legal aid" was issued to these arrested persons - according to the Western type, the amount of expenses was calculated hourly. This money was then transferred to FSB freelancers such as lawyers Oleksiy Ladin, Emil Kurbedinov and their associates. Then, transferred to cash, large sums (tens of thousands of dollars per case) were shared among everyone. This can be clearly seen on the example of lawyer Ladin, who regularly visits Kyiv and is promoted by Sorosyat and Bankov. With the powers of his family firm "KB-82" LLC, Ladin regularly won and fulfilled "tenders" of the occupation administrations of Crimea, in particular projects such as "building a school with the Tatar language of instruction" supervised by the FSB. And while receiving money from the occupiers, Ladin simultaneously protected political prisoners from the occupiers.
Ladin's close friends, journalists Valery Balayan and Anton Naumliuk, are engaged in journalism in Kyiv for Western grants, while regularly performing delicate assignments for the Russian Federation for remuneration. Moreover, Balayan made the famous film "Hu with Mr. Putin", he is advertised as an enemy of the Kremlin, but at the same time Balayan was not taken away from his villa in Partenit, in Crimea, where he regularly visits, in particular, for secret meetings with partners from the special services.
